{"id":242816,"date":"2021-04-16T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=242816"},"modified":"2021-10-02T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:42:55","slug":"vaccines-modern-medicine-end-reliance-fetal-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vaccines-modern-medicine-end-reliance-fetal-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern medicine must end the use of cells from aborted children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note, 9\/30\/21:<\/strong> This article has been updated using further research revealing that many of the drugs listed as having a current association with aborted fetal cell lines were developed and created long before any fetal cell lines were used in the research, development, or testing of drugs. We regret this omission in the original publication of this article.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the production of COVID-19 vaccines reignited a debate surrounding the ethics of using <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/guide-fetal-cell-lines-aborted-vaccine-development\/\">fetal cell lines derived from aborted children<\/a> in the creation of such vaccines. As noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-you-need-know-covid-19-vaccines\/\">previous article<\/a> published at Live Action News, &#8220;<b>Live Action strongly condemns the use of abortion-derived cell lines in any stage of vaccine development\u00a0<\/b>(research, design, testing, or manufacturing) because these cell lines were created by violating the fundamental human rights of a preborn victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, there is more beneath the surface, and\u00a0the connection of modern medicine to abortion is deep and complicated \u2014\u00a0and must be broken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The COVID vaccines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three COVID vaccines currently in use in the United States are from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson &amp; Johnson. While Pfizer and Moderna used the fetal cell line HEK-293 (derived from the kidney of an aborted baby in the 1960s) in the <em>testing<\/em> phase of their vaccines, Johnson &amp; Johnson used the fetal cell line PER.C6 (derived\u00a0from the retinal tissue of an 18-week aborted baby boy in the Netherlands in the mid-1980s) in both the <em>testing<\/em> and\u00a0<em>production<\/em> of its COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The news led many pro-lifers to denounce the vaccines and call for others to do the same. Johnson &amp; Johnson was labeled as the most morally compromised because it utilized fetal cells for the actual production of the vaccine, though many argued against using any vaccine with any connection to fetal cell lines.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC, a Catholic priest, wrote an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/throughcatholiclenses\/2021\/01\/if-any-drug-tested-on-hek-293-is-immoral-goodbye-modern-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> for Patheos in January, in which he noted that modern medicine and abortion-derived fetal cell lines are deeply intertwined, claiming, &#8220;[I]f we reject a medication merely for being tested on a fetal cell line,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;most of a standard pharmacy would be immoral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, while many drugs are <em>currently<\/em> linked to testing using aborted fetal cell lines, this was not always the case \u2014\u00a0and this is important to note.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are common household medications linked to fetal cells?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A quick search on Google Scholar for common medications and HEK-293 (the most commonly used fetal cell line) yields countless results of the connection between HEK-293 and nearly every drug from Albuterol to Zithromax. It has been decades since the scientific research community began using fetal cell lines to both produce and test medications, vitamins, and vaccines. Completely phasing out the use of cells from aborted children is likely to take a number of years \u2014 and yet, as Live Action News previously noted, this should be the goal:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Using cell lines derived from the murders of innocent preborn children should not be normalized, and <b>legal, financial, or market incentives for the harvesting of aborted children must be put to an end.<\/b> These actors \u2014 lawmakers, pharmaceutical companies, and scientific researchers \u2014 should be strongly encouraged to develop alternative cell lines&#8230;. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t just HEK-293 that yields these types of results on Google Scholar\u00a0\u2014 it&#8217;s also WI-38, MRC-5, PER C6, WI-26, VA4, and Walvax-2. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-you-need-know-covid-19-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All are cell lines derived<\/a> from children aborted decades ago and are used for vaccines such as rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis A, and shingles. But even if we only listed the medications or vaccines currently connected to HEK-293 through <em>testing alone<\/em> (as the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are), that list would be unimaginably long.<\/p>\n<p>This list includes Tylenol, Advil, Motrin, Aleve, Sudafed, Benadryl, Claritin, Robitussin, Mucinex, Tums, Maalox, Colace, Ex-Lax, Pepto-Bismol, Albuterol, Azithromycin, Lidocaine, and even the drug that endured such controversy early on in the COVID-19 pandemic:\u00a0hydroxychloroquine.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fr. Schneider failed to note some important distinctions in his article when referencing these common medications. Dr. Brian Kopp of the Pro-Life Healthcare Alliance noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativeminorityreport.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/02\/not-so-fast-the-very-misleading-article-by-a-priest-on-drugs-and-abortion-testing\/\">post<\/a> at Creative Minority Report that &#8220;when [Schneider] researched these medications, he failed to distinguish those that were tested on, developed with and\/or manufactured with fetal cells before or during their initial introduction, from those that, for academic reasons, years later were tested on fetal stem cell lines.&#8221; Kopp continued:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>For instance, [Schneider] named multiple over the counter as well as prescription drugs that were developed well before 1960. But fetal stem cells were not initially isolated until 1963, and not actually utilized in drug testing and manufacture until years later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>So it&#8217;s important to realize that using those medications and vaccines in the meantime does not equal participation in or acceptance of abortion&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Just because some academic or researcher somewhere subsequently did tests on that drug utilizing fetal stem cells, it does not mean those drugs were ethically tainted in their origin or subsequent manufacture or testing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And at Children of God for Life, Jose Trasancos, Ph.D., listed a host of medications that Schneider noted in his article, pointing out that these drugs, <em>could not possibly<\/em> have been developed using fetal cells because that practice did not even exist at the time they were created, <a href=\"https:\/\/cogforlife.org\/2021\/09\/21\/14-medicines-fr-matthew-schneider-claimed-use-aborted-fetal-cell-lines-but-do-not\/\">adding<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>While any use of the remains of aborted children ought to be rejected by anyone who values the dignity of human life, these medicines do not exist \u2018but for the use of\u2019 those children\u2019s bodies. These medicines were developed independently of such use. Later on, other researchers may have conducted tests on the already existing medicines using HEK-293 or some other aborted fetal cell line, but there is a distinction between medicines that would not be here <strong>but for the use of<\/strong> aborted children and those that were later tested.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Schneider claimed, &#8220;If we were to disallow all remote cooperation, we would need to reject all of modern society more than contemplative nuns.&#8221;\u00a0Fr. Schneider also stated that even the common and simple act of purchasing items made in China loosely connects us to the forced abortion the Chinese government has carried out on its citizens for decades.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean pro-lifers should simply accept it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking to the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pro-lifers <em>can and should<\/em> demand that new methods be created and utilized for developing and testing the medications and vaccines that benefit our health. For instance, in 2020, major pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/manufacturer-discontinues-aborted-cell-polio-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discontinued<\/a> the use of the MRC-5 fetal cell line from aborted children in the development of its polio vaccines. Instead, the company now uses Vero (monkey) cells. There are other avenues that can be explored as well, but the change cannot be accomplished overnight. It will take incentives and deadline goalposts as well as motivated individuals working in the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing that the ubiquity of HEK-293 brings up is that Catholics, especially those in the field, should work for other research methods,&#8221; encouraged Fr.\u00a0Schneider. &#8220;Can we start a cell line from umbilical cord blood or from other ethical sources that could replace HEK-293 as a standard way to do in vitro tests? We need to encourage the move from HEK-293 to one or more ethical lines&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Progress <em>can<\/em> be made and it starts with pro-life individuals pushing back against the overwhelming use of aborted fetal cell lines created decades ago in the production and testing of medications and vaccines that we have come to rely on. But it also involves ending the trafficking of body parts from aborted children that is happening <em>today<\/em> in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Preborn babies are being killed <em>right now<\/em> and are being sold for parts to scientific research companies. Pro-life politicians must be encouraged to pass vital pro-life legislation. Pro-lifers must continue to expose the predatory abortion industry for profiting from the deaths of children and continue to educate Americans about abortion. They must also remain present outside abortion businesses to help women choose life.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a long road to removing fetal cell lines completely from vaccine and medication research, but it is a direction we need to energetically and urgently pursue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note, 9\/30\/21: This article has been updated using further research revealing that many of the drugs listed as having a current association with aborted fetal cell lines were developed and created long before any fetal cell lines were used in the research, development, or testing of drugs. 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